Classics in Linguistic Theory

GU 2025/4253

All readings will be provided.

Extracts from:

Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (extracts)

Montague Semantics: Hall-Partee, B. (1979). Semantics—mathematics or psychology? In: Semantics from different points of view, 1-14.

Lewis, Scorekeeping in a language game (1979)

Austin, How to do things with words (1962)

Grice Logic and conversation (1975)

Vygotsky, Thought and Language (1934) (extracts)

Wittgenstein, selected extracts from the Philosophical Investigations (1958)

Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation. (1974)

Clark, H. H. (1997). Dogmas of understanding. Discourse Processes, 23(3), 567-598. (1997).

Goodwin, Charles. “The Interactive Construction of a Sentence in Natural Conversation.” In Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology, by George Psathas, 97–121. New York: Irvington Publishers, 1979.